A Funny Thing Happened While At the Theater
I recently had the chance to see a dance performance (AN ACTUAL PROFESSIONAL DANCE PERFOMANCE, other than the company that I belong to) here in WV this weekend. River North Chicago is the name of the company I think.
Anywho, while there an interesting thing happened that made me want to give this woman the mother of the year award. The company was in the middle of performing on stage, and I happened to hear this noise. I look around to see where it is coming from. In front of me were 2 older ladies, probably mid 40’s early 50 talking. In the seats next to them were 4 little boys in a row, ranging from the ages of 5-12 and their mother. The oldest of the children was the fortunate one to be seated next to the talkers, anyway I digress. I hear this noise of the ladies talking or so I thought. As I am abou to look back at the performance, I see th elittle boy slightly turn his head and I hear- shhhh(slightly). WHAT- Did that just come from that little boy?( I am thinking). Again, I hear SHHHH(a little louder)OMG this little boy is shhing these ladies(I continue to think), and the lady next to him turns and looks at this little boy. At this moment the little boy puts his finger to his mouth and shhhhs this lady louder. I was in absolute shock. Needless to say, the woman shut up. At that moment I was very pruod of that little boys mom, for actuaklly teaching him that it is not acceptable to be rude and speak during performances- at least as loud as these ladies were. Not only because of that but also because she brought her four boys to a dance perfomance, and the bouys were very interested in what was going on, on that stage. It was as if she was showing her boys it’s acceptable to do absolutely anything you want, and real men do dance, not the stereo-type that society has given us.
ANYWAY, as far as those two ladies? After intermission the mom sat once chair down from the two ladies with the boys on the other side, and the ladies did not peep the rest of the performance.
